Lawyer Protests Unjust Sentence by Refusing Sham Appeal Process, Demands Judicial Review
Imprisoned attorney Amirsalar Davoudi, the latest human rights attorney to be sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Iran for doing his ...
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November 14, 2019
Widow of Detainee Who Died in Iranian Custody Recognizes Her Interrogator Posing as “Reporter” on State TV
IRIB Briefly Airs Pseudo-Documentary About Detained Conservationists Ahead of Verdict A man claiming to be a reporter in a pseudo-documentary about Iran’s detained conservationists that ...
November 12, 2019
Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director
Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political prisoner and human rights attorney, Nasrin Sotoudeh. Imprisoned ...
November 12, 2019
Detained Kurdish Teacher Falsely Accused of Security Charges, Sister Says
Held Almost Six Months, Over Two Months Incommunicado, Even As Family Has Posted Bail Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi has been in ...
November 11, 2019
Kurdish Political Prisoner Held for 25+ Years Should be Freed Under Revised Penal Code, Says Lawyer
One of the longest-serving political prisoners in Iran, Mohammad Nazari, is eligible for release but is being arbitrarily denied freedom, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told ...
November 8, 2019
Rule Allowing Appeals Hearings without Defendants Present is Blatant Violation of Law
Judiciary Chief and Supreme Leader Hollow Out Appeal Process, Defendants’ Last Line of Defense The decision by Iran’s Judiciary Chief ...
November 8, 2019
No Action Yet in Parliament on Bill to Ban Broadcast of Confessions During Investigations
Bill Does Not Ban Extraction of Confessions, They Can Still Be Used at Later Stages An Iranian parliamentary bill that aims to stop ...
November 7, 2019
Conservationists Slapped with New Charge 22 Months After Being Arrested by Revolutionary Guards
Fate of Detainees Unclear Despite Intervention by Supreme Leader Nearly two years after they were first detained in Tehran, eight conservationists have been charged with “cooperation with U.S. and Israeli enemy states against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the ...
November 6, 2019
Imprisoned Sufi Dervishes Launch Hunger Strike Demanding Freedom of Movement for Ailing Spiritual Leader
More than 70 imprisoned members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order began a hunger strike in early November to honor their ailing spiritual leader Nour-Ali Tabandeh, who had been hospitalized due to complications from his ...
October 30, 2019
Kurdish Female Political Prisoner Denied Medical Treatment, Attendance at Brother’s Funeral
Despite suffering from serious medical problems, the authorities are denying long-time political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian treatment outside the prison’s limited clinic, according to her ...
October 28, 2019
Iran Releases Seven Political Prisoners on Bail Without Explanation
Six Prisoners Posted Extraordinarily High Bail, Unclear Why Fellow Prisoners of Conscience Remain Jailed A Christian convert, four journalists and two ...
October 24, 2019
Another Mother Denied Visits With Children Under Evin Prison’s New Director
Following additional restrictions imposed on political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison by its newly appointed Director Gholamreza Ziaei, Maryam Akbari-Monfared’s ...
October 23, 2019
Civil Rights Activist Arash Sadeghi Repeatedly Denied Medical Treatment for “Paralyzed” Arm
Rajaee Shahr Prison Director Creating Obstacles to Hospital Transfers Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi is dangerously ill yet Iranian authorities continue ...
October 21, 2019
“I Will Turn My Body Into a Weapon,” Writes Detained Women’s Rights Activist on Hunger Strike
Detained women’s rights activist Atefeh Rangriz has been on hunger strike in Gharchak Prison, south of Tehran, since October 16, 2019, to protest the ...
October 18, 2019
14 Women Activists to Be Prosecuted for Demanding Supreme Leader’s Resignation
The prosecution of 14 women who signed a statement demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin ...
October 16, 2019
Reign of Evin Prison’s New Director Begins with Denial of Political Prisoners’ Rights
Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the ...
October 15, 2019
Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Has Been Separated from Her Children for Five Years and Counting
Imprisoned human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has not been able to hold her two children since 2015, for nearly five years, her mother ...
October 14, 2019
Death Penalty-Carrying Charge Dropped Against Four Conservationists After Supreme Leader Intervened
The charge of “corruption on earth,” which can lead to the death penalty under Iranian law, has been dropped against four detained conservationists following ...
October 9, 2019
Appeals Court to Rule on Satirist’s Case Without Hearing His Defense
Iran’s Appeals Court, which met last week to review satirist Keyomars Marzban’s appeal against a preliminary court’s harsh sentence against ...
October 7, 2019
Sepideh Qoliyan Said She Was Tortured in Iran, Now She’s Serving an 18-Year Prison Sentence
Female Activist Described Inhumane Conditions of Detention in Video Statement *Warning: This article contains content that could be upsetting or disturbing for ...
October 2, 2019
Joint Letter on the Arrests of Activists’ Relatives by the Iranian Government
The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned about arrests of family members of activists, journalists and political prisoners by the Iranian ...
October 2, 2019
Imprisoned Iranian-British Dual National Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Pleas for Release in New Letter
Unjustly Jailed Mother Relays Torment of Separation from Her 5-Year-Old Daughter Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has made an impassioned plea ...
October 2, 2019
Thousands Sign Petition for Release of British-Iranian Dual National Imprisoned in Iran
Anoosheh Ashoori Serving a 12-Year Sentence on Sham Charges of Espionage More than 47,000 people have signed a petition calling for the release ...
September 27, 2019
Striking Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Add Colleagues’ Freedom to List of Demands
More than three years into ongoing strikes for unpaid wages and benefits, workers of Iran’s biggest sugar plant are now also calling ...
September 26, 2019
Baha’i Woman Blindfolded During Interrogations, Imprisoned Under “National Security” Crimes
Man Pressured to Make False Confession, Charged With National Security Crimes for Running Peaceful Baha'i Social Media Channels A Baha’i woman started serving ...